Day One Scuba Training in Panglao

While in the Philippines we're taking advantage of the warm water and reasonable prices to complete our PADI Open Water course. We have been doing our online learning over the past few weeks so it was very cool to start putting this into practice!

We spent most of the morning doing theory and learning how to set up our gear. After lunch we were taken to the other side of the island via tuktuk and thrown in the deep end (literally). No pool learning here. We completed our skills with our instructor before he took us for a little explore of the coral reef.

It was so freeing to glide underwater for an hour without having to surface. Definitely a bit funky getting used to the breathing and attempting to control our buoyancy - some things to work on! We were super lucky though and saw three turtles, including a Hawksbill and a big a Green turtle. There were also a few small sea snakes and tonnes of other fish.

Unfortunately we don't have our Insta 360 dive case, but we'll try to find another way to get some underwater footage over the next couple of days! And hopefully the turtles hang around as well!Read more